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Lacan’s Harpo
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 50, Number 4, Summer 2011
- pp. 98-116
- 10.1353/cj.2011.0046
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
This essay develops a reading of the Marx Brothers’ films following Lacan’s discussion of Harpo Marx in his Seminar VII. Analyzing Harpo’s role as an object-machine of enjoyment, it connects his status, as well as the larger realm of the brothers’ humor, to Lacan’s perverse and perverting analytic discourse.
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